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...into high-quality yarn sold on the international knitters’ market.The two students say they want to use innovative business solutions to tackle development challenges. To improve living standards in rural communities in western China, they have launched a non-governmental organization, Ventures in Development, with two for-profit subsidiaries designed to leverage one of the region’s most abundant local resources—13 million Tibetan yaks.So writes in an e-mail that several fashion houses—such as Donna Karan and Jhane Barnes—“are highly excited and think this...
...real violence that some of these stories contain is also troubling. It is one thing to set off violence in quotation marks, as it were—to foreground the kinds of grisly scenarios that television, movies, and video games cynically use to pique our voyeuristic interest for profit. However, there is a point at which one has to question whether the ironic distance implied from what is described renders these stories sufficiently interesting to justify its disturbing presence...
...Opal Mehta” may very well be inauthentic, literarily-bankrupt, profit-driven pop-culture fluff. But before we begin smugly and self-righteously to debate which circle of hell Viswanathan should be cast into for her transgression (the eighth), I ask that we pause for a moment and empathize with our embattled classmate. It should not be very difficult to do so if we honestly consider our own intellectual and cultural position. As a community, Harvard is more than complicit in the production of inauthentic chick lit, that regrettably pervasive genre of packaged pop culture easily digested by teenage...
...David Heath, an investigative reporter for The Seattle Times, said that war coverage is one of the most dangerous assignments for journalists. Since the war in Iraq began in 2003, 49 Iraqi journalists have been killed, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a N.Y.-based non-profit organization...
...Tuesday that he has asked for a waiver of clean air rules and stopped pumping up the emergency oil reserve to try to help push down the price. He also said a $2 billion tax break for the nation's oil companies, which have seen some of the highest profit margins on record, should be repealed. It was a first step that many rejected as little more than election year politics, coming at the same time that such lawmakers as Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama are calling for investigations into perceived price gouging...